How much is fear driving your vote this year?
26 May 2010
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ElDavicho asked:
This is a non-paritisan question. I’m asking supporters of all candidates and I’m leaving my personal choice out of it, so please don’t post responses about the +/- of specific candidates. I’m ask if whatever decision you are making this election is being driven by fear of the opposing candidate.
This is a non-paritisan question. I’m asking supporters of all candidates and I’m leaving my personal choice out of it, so please don’t post responses about the +/- of specific candidates. I’m ask if whatever decision you are making this election is being driven by fear of the opposing candidate.
Obamas campaign is based solely on the fear of “4 more years of Bush” McCain’s is based on the fear of “redistribution”. They are both winning votes with fear as a platform. Which is not very different from most elections.
The only thing I “fear” is if Obama is elected, our world will be in a world of sh-t! Worse than ever before. Read the end part of the Holy Bible….it is coming true very soon.
I vote each time, so it would not be correct to say fear is driving my vote. As for the huge voter turnout, I think that has to do with young people being excited, which probably has to do with the historic candidate of Barack Obama, whether or not you like the man’s policies.
It’s not. I’ve heard other people say they’re not voting for Obama because they’re “scared” of him. No other reason. Ignorance and fear are correlated.
I fear the outcome either way
McCain-Anger that Obama didn’t get it
Obama-”peaceful” celebration…or if he were to get assassinated…riots
A life lived in fear is a life half-lived. What IS there to be afraid of? Whoever wins -America will still be America and that should make everyone feel safe.
I must admit that the fear of Sarah Palin becoming president if something happened to Senator McCains health is very real to me. She is a religious extremist with a puritanistic world view and she quite frankly scares the hell out of me.
I think fear is the only thing driving Americans to vote nowadays, whether if it’s fear of losing their home, or legalizing abortion, or having no retirement, fear of having a “Muslim” president, fear of having an old senile person trying to run things.. (these are not my opinions, I’m just repeating what I’ve heard people say)…
It’s all based on fear.
You can say ignorance drives votes too, but usually fear is what fuels the ignorance of others.
Fear is my primary motivation for my vote…unfortunately. I am afraid that the charismatic Obama will take the first step down an economic path that leads to no where good. William J. H. Boetcker said it best.
“You cannot help the poor, by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak, by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity, by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up, by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man, by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage, by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently; by doing for them what they could and should, do for themselves.”
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